Oh What Do You Do in the Summertime?

It feels like spring today, and I had three too many layers on when I went running this morning.

I have been trying to decide what to do for the summer, and I can't for the life of me come up with a good solution. To have a job or to not have a job, that is the question. No, it's not even a question, rather a matter of luck. February is almost over, and I still don't have a job. I feel a little (a lot) like a failure, but we must press on!

As I was telling my sister (and my mother, and my other sister, and my roommates, and my friends) the other day, I have a limited but various array of solutions for my summer.

1. One of my lifetime goals is to be an EFY Counselor, and I have been trying to apply for the past month, but for some reason, the BYU website doesn't want me to be a counselor. If I ever figure out how to apply, I will do so. I would be an counselor for the entire month of June. So that takes care of June at least. I get out of school in April...next semester begins in September...I guess two weeks of July would be spent at family reunions and the 24th of July, but that still leaves me with May and August.

2. I could move home and help my mom in the garden and scrape the popcorn from the ceilings and...As much as I would like to be home to do these great things, I don't think my parents really want me living at home for four months with not much else to do but scrape ceilings and pull weeds.

3. Find a good job and stay in Provo for the summer. Ah, Provo in the summer. It sounds heavenly.

4. THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION: I will find a job next week, which pays more than $7.00 and hour, and they will just love me because I'm fun and a hard worker.They will say, "Kelly, you are such a good worker, how about you work for us from now until the end of May, then take off June and July to do EFY and reunions and all those things you love to do in the summer, and then come back in August and stay with us until you finish college."

If it was only that simple.